FontLab - From Illustrator To FontLab
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Illustrator CS5 file: jokke-svin.dk/other/send/illus...
Illustrator 10 file: jokke-svin.dk/other/send/illus...
If you don't quite like the pen tool (drawing tool) in FontLab, then this tutorial is for you! - Навчання та стиль
One of the most straightforward and easy to follow tutorial I have ever seen on UA-cam. Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated :) I'm no font expert and I still have a lot to learn. That's partly why I decided to make these videos - to push myself to learning more and more gradually. I know little about Open Type. All I know is that it's a very nice format to export to, as it's supported by both WIN and MAC and it has nice features that other formats don't have.
My hero.
I designed a very decorative font in illustrator last year, but when I copied into font lab the alternate grid setting adjusted all my points! An excruciating pain...should've have done my research, I know :S
This will be SO useful, thanks for the free education.
Thank you so much for posting this video! I spent almost a day looking for detailed tutorials alone and this one just saved my life! lol :))
This is a great tutorial, thank you for creating it and even providing the files! VERY helpful!
Select the paths you want to copy and then expand them. That should do the trick :)
Seriously helpful, you just saved me 4 days of hair pulling and agitation. Thanks :D
Brilliant stuff, an invaluable tutorial that will make my first steps into the world of FontLab Studio 5 a lot easier. Thank you very much, it's very generous of you.
Excellent stuff. Just what I've been looking for.
You're a great teacher.
@PatchCornAdams721 Hey Patch, thanks for watching. It's important that all that shapes you want to copy from ILL to FL are expanded - either using pathfinder or object / expand (or expand appearance) from the top menu. Hope it helps.
WOW, this was easy, thank you for sharing the knowledge.
Knew the most of the tutorial, but i really appreciate the ai-file!
Thank you Jokke!
Thank you, works like a charm!
Thank you so much! You saved my work! =)
OK, so with some messing around, it was MY fault haha, I hadn't checked off the copy as PDF option in Illustrator, so if anybody else is having the same issue, make sure this is checked off! Thanks again for this ridiculously awesome tutorial. =)
Thanks very much for the Illustrator file. I'm very new to all this so I will see how I get on with trying to create a font file in Font Lab.
Thank you very much for this tutorial en ai template. It was a great help!
You are awesome :)
This is just a part of his many tutorials for FontLab. You should check his channel for the rest of the tutorials. It's very simple.
No problem :) Make sure that the shapes you copy-paste from IL to FL don't contain any outlines (that they're all solid color). Also, make sure that you're not using any clipping masks (expand appearance on everything). Hope that helps. If not, make sure that yor setting for Clipboard are correct in both apps.
I have set everything like the video says, and when I copy from Illustrator and paste into fontlab, everything scales to the size from baseline to ascender. I can't seem to solve this.
(I have PC, and the Options > EPS and "Fit EPS filez to (Ascender - Descender) height" is Not marked. I don't know if this has anything to do but I say it just in case)
Tack sa mycket för Setup-filen! Mange Tak!!
Thank you. This is very helpful.
Very helpful tip and template, thanks
@toorosietohandle Did you make sure to expand all shapes before copy/pasting them?
Very nice! Well done tutorial!
Thankss! you made my work much much easierrr!!
thanks Man! it's super clear and really useful!
Hey Oliver. Sorry I didn't get back to you. Cool that you figured it out by yourself :) And thanks!
Thank You. Just the thing I was looking for. :)
Of course! Check the link in the description now :)
Thanx a lot, dude! Very good tutorial! :)
I did, and I got it figured out...turns out it was just a view setting in FontLab...thanks again for the tutorial! Big help!
Hi! Great tutorial! I have a problem with my art board rulers, or rather descender and ascender measurements. I made my own guides from an existing font, but my descender measure appear to be a positive number and the ascender a negative, Shouldn't the descender be negative because it's below the baseline which I set to 0? I can't seem to figure out how fix this, tried to copy paste with these numbers into FL but it doesn't paste it in right. Appriciate your help!
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been using Illustrator since version 8, so like to think I know what I'm doing. But I'm really new to FontLab, and the pen tool just seemed alien. This setup was great, reminds me much the same of designing wesites in Illustrator… get it right in the beginning and you're laughing.
@toorosietohandle
or: Window > Panel > editing layers. Click the square next to the yin/yang-sign.
Very useful, thank you!
thank you thank you thank you soooo much! really useful tutorial.
Wow, you made my life easier!
dude, I LOVE YOU, thank you. THHHHHAAAANKKKK YOUUUUU
@toorosietohandle In fontlab, when you open your glyph, go to:
windows>
panels>
editing layers.
expand the box that opens up (square in the upper right corner)
and click the little black and white boxes (next to the yin-yang)
hope it helps (though it was a month ago, you probly figured it out by now) somebody out there! tchuss!
@mscharf16 It doesn't matter no. Actually I don't think you can adjust the baseline in FontLab.
Really thanks.,it's really helpful for me:))
Fantastic! Thanks man
Working fine now, thanks!
brilliant! Thank you :)
hi, thanks for this tutorial!
is exactly what I was looking for!
i'm drawing my font with the bamboo tablet, but by using illustrator (cs4) brushes (the round one) , when i paste it in fontlab, it copies only the outlines.
:(
what can i do?
thank you!
Thank you for this!!!!
@BrianCrimCreative The link is in the video description. Expand it to view the link.
Sensational, thanks. Great voice :D
When i create glyphs with loops in it, like a letter B, the B appears solid, with no holes when i copy and paste it. How do i do this?
really useful, thanks
Thanks for the info!!!
Great man! Thanks
I guess it'a a matter of taste / getting used to working in FontLab. Personally, I have a really hard time using the Pen Tool in FontLab, but then again, I haven't really taken the time to understand how it works differently than the one i Illustrator.
Why is the default character set on FontLab so restricted? How can I change this?
Also, is it possible to do something with the font whilst making so that I can created accented consonants using Alt Gr, which generally only works with vowels, so they can be used easily? Even if your laptop has a numpad, it's impossible remembering all the combinations, but say for example I want to create Ś, can I do something in FontLab so that a character, combined with Alt Gr as with vowels, gives it an acute accent? Thanks.
Hey. Could you be more specific? If you hand draw a font, scan it in and do a Live Trace on it in Illustrator, then yes, you can copy / paste that Live Traced vector into FontLab :)
thanks very helpful!
Good for you for doing this video. It's great.
I'm trying to learn FontLab and like a million others, I find the technical details overwhelming. More FontLab tutorial vids are sorely needed. I'll keep checking back to see if you've added any thing.
At some point I'll be interested in Open Type features. Do you know anything about Open Type?
There's one question I'd like to ask... how did you increase the size of your Pen tool thumbail (I mean the display of the icon) while you were making the video???? Is there a keyboard shortcut for doing that? Thanks in advance.
Hello, great tutorial.
About expanding: I want the opposite effect.
I've created a font existing of outlines that are not filled.
When i paste the outline shapes in FontLab they become filled shapes automatically.
Do you maybe know what's the cause?
Thanks!
Hey cheers for the tutorial has helped loads. My font unfortunately doesn't get exported properly it says there are open contours. Is there any easy way of fixing this? I cant seem to. When i do export the font some characters have strange lines going through them and others don't display properly at all!
Hey Joaquim, any idea why I can't see the font while in the metrics window? If I export it it's fine, and it appears fine in the glyph windows. And yes, the fill is there and what not. I'd appreciate the help! Thanks.
in this tutorial in the red box its says (baseline = 0) but there is not baseline in the Font Info... does this matter... or is the u"underline" the baseline?
super!! thanks
Thank you very muchhh !
Wow, just what I was looking for, this is great. My only problem is this: my shapes are filled, not outlined in illustrator, but for some reason they come into fontlab as outlines with no fill....help?
THANK YOU !!!
wicked.. cheers .
Hi Joaquim. I’ve been searching for tutorials about typetool3, because i have a weird problem. The Shapes i copy paste from Illustrator into Typetool are excluding the overlapping parts. I could merge them in Illustrator, but that would be kind of a pain in the ass. I did everything as you suggested to, but the problem remains. Got any idea how to prevent this?
so would this work with a scanned hand drawn font as well?
Hi !
thanks for share this in a very easy way,
I've done all steps and everything it's perfect but one thing, when I copy-paste from illustrator, fontlab doesn't recognize the black fill. I have Illustrator cs3 and fontlab 5.0.2 for mac
@JoKKeSvin I have created an object, filled it, but when I got to expand it so I can Copy and Paste, nothing seems to happen. When I then copy and paste into FL from ILL (after expanding) all I get is an outline. Expand appearance is gray and I cannot select it. Any help? (From anyone?)
How can set up baseline = 0 and calculate the rest of the lengths from there in illustrator?
Hey, great tutorial and files! Thank you! However, no matter what I do, when I copy from illustrator to fontlab, some points move (anchor points of Layer 1 aligned on a curve of Layer 2)... That's what makes font designing a lot of work! It's about time to change the way fonts work, and stop making them UPM size limited! :P
@jallenmorris1 Hey Jallen. Be sure to check you view settings in FL, to make sure it's set to not show outlines. I think that might be what's causing the problem.
Hell yeaaah !!!
How I get the key dimensions in Illustrator?
Hai,I have a similar problem (glyph resizes 0 to ascender) you might have found a solution, can you tell me ? please
In FontLab, you can select (double click) the hole strokes, right click over them, select "reverse contour" and that all.. hope this help you.
Great! Thanks
I'm working with an older version of Illustrator (10) on a Mac, which is unable to open your "Illustrator-setup.zip" file. Would you mind terribly much re-saving it as an earlier Illustrator version (Legacy?) and e-mailing it to me. Thank you so much.
I could really use the link but I cant seems to find it?
You rule.
I am having this same problem, after I paste a glyph with holes(A, B, a, g, etc), it got copied as a solid... anyone knows how to solve it?
Hi JoKKeSvin,
My FontLab is a Demo Version, and when I click "Generate Font" it appears a window saying that my font will be modified. If I install it, some types has a "FL"
I'm looking for a Activacion Code Serial, but I dont find it. If you can send me a link where I could got the Serial Number, or better a .rar or .zip with your installer and serial, crack, or patch. Please.
@tomaspajdlhauser Hmm, I'm afraid I don't know Type Tool 3.
so whats than? once i create the font how to save and everything...
Hey Jo,
looking for the *.ai Link , where can i find it?
thx
Your illustrator guide link is not working :(
Done :) Just download the zip again.
Hey Jo,
where can I find your *.ai file?
thanx
Hey, I can't draw anything in your file... Help???
@deceptordave
Yes, it does. Thank you!!!
thanks for the email back. so a 300+ dpi scan of and drawn font may work huh? sweet i'll try today and shoot you my feed back.. thanks again.
the files are gone :(
@andcustard Are you sure? I can download it just fine.
could you please save this link in CS2????
I reinstall my older version (FL5.0.0 ) instead 5.0.4 and now everything is fine
you should add the illustrator file you're using as a guide.